All Episodes of How to Become a Tyrant
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Season 1
7.3/10589 votesLoading...Seize Power
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/9/2021
Interested in becoming a tyrant? There are rules, and the playbook for a rise to dictatorship starts with one of history's most brutal: Adolf Hitler.
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7.5/10552 votesLoading...Crush Your Rivals
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/9/2021
You've secured your place at the top, but maintaining power means watching your back. Nobody did that better or more ruthlessly than Saddam Hussein.
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7.3/10486 votesLoading...Reign Through Terror
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/9/2021
When keeping your population under control, is it better to be loved or feared? Idi Amin certainly thought he knew the right answer to that question.
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7.3/10483 votesLoading...Control the Truth
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/9/2021
Through public relations spin, revisionist history and censorship. Soviet autocrat Joseph Stalin found a certain flexibility with the truth useful.
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7.3/10456 votesLoading...Create a New Society
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/9/2021
Free speech? Right to assembly? Rebel-turned-dictator Muammar Gaddafi realized that civil liberties had to go when reshaping society. But he got soft.
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7.4/10443 votesLoading...Rule Forever
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/9/2021
Seizing power is hard, but keeping it is harder. In North Korea, the Kim dynasty unlocked the secret to ruling forever: They declared themselves gods.
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